After 18 months of talking with 126 German immigrants and/or their children here in Waterloo Region, work has now begun on a book for the community, tentatively entitled Germans of Waterloo Region.
German filmmaker Marc Bauder is coming to uWaterloo next week to talk about the creation of Lichtgrenze, an art installation commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Read more about the event at the Daily Bulletin and visit the WCGS's event page.
Award-winning German director Maria Speth will be visiting the University of Waterloo tomorrow, April 21st. Read more about her upcoming visit.
This event is co-represented by the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and the Goethe-Institut. Maria Speth is a guest of the Goethe-Institut.
Sonja Schäfer, a graduate student studying for her Joint MA in Intercultural German Studies, wrote a review about the experimental chamber opera Führerbunker by Andrew Ager. Have a read!
Führerbunker premières at The Registry Theatre this Wednesday, February 11th. This article appeared in the Record, the local paper for Waterloo Region, on February 10th.
For details on the event and the composer, visit our events listing.
Thanks to a financial donation and volunteer time to recruit participants, the German Oral History Project currently underway at the Waterloo Centre for German Studies can increase the number of interviews it conducts this year.
Marga Weigel, Ernst Friedel, and Manfred Richter have been instrumental in speaking to members of the German community in Waterloo Region and raising $20,000. The financial donation was made through the German-Canadian Education Fund plus personal donations from Weigel and Friedel.
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) is looking for people of German descent—or their children—who would like to talk about their years in German-speaking Europe, their arrival in Canada during the 1950s, 1960s or later, and their lives in Waterloo Region.
Whether they arrived in the 1950s on a ship or a few years ago on a passenger plane, German immigrants to Waterloo Region still hold many untold stories in their families that risk being lost if they are not recorded. The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is looking for people of German descent—or their children—who would like to talk about their years in German-speaking Europe, their arrival in Canada during the 1950s, 1960s or later, and their lives in Waterloo Region.
The latest issue of the joint newsletter of Waterloo Centre for German Studies and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is out: Newsletter Archive Link